Navigating Educational Equity and Excellence in Aotearoa–New Zealand

• In Event: Roundtable Session 13

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Dialogue about educational equity and excellence is essential for transformative inquiries within schools, neighborhoods, and communities. Equity has been defined as providing quality education and learning opportunities for students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, while excellence is about outstanding performance and specialist skills for societal benefit. The XXX project was a longitudinal research and development project (2005-2015) conducted across 39 high schools in New Zealand. It was designed to improve both equity and excellence outcomes for Indigenous Maori, Pacific Island and other students from high poverty communities, by partnering with school communities to better prepare students for degree-level study. Major findings about this work are presented, along with specific recommendations for public scholarship on these issues.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities

Chairs

• Arnetha F. Ball, Stanford University

• Lorri Michelle Johnson Santamaria, The University of Auckland

Papers

• Navigating the XXX Path: Setting the Course - Cynthia Alcyion Kiro, The University of Auckland

• Navigating the Impact of Data Analysis on Student Achievement - Stephen Earl Irving, The University of Auckland

• Teachers Navigating Academic Counseling and Culturally Responsive Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences - Anne Shelley Hynds, The University of Auckland

• Navigating Students' Opportunities to Learn - Aaron Wilson, University of Auckland

• Revisiting the Challenge of Ensuring Educational Equity and Excellence for All - Elizabeth McKinley, University of Melbourne